I've been a tech. forever but seem to be lost these days regarding data backup for small businesses. Is there a site dedicated to education/solutions? If not, here is my question. Is tape backup...

To All Cognoscenti, Greetings! When running Norton Ghost, the opening screen displays the following for both HDDs: "S.M.A.R.T. capability disabled." Should I be concerned? If so, how can I enable...

Hi, I recently bought a new HP Pavilion a1220n Pentium 4 Computer with a HP DVD Writer 740b Lightscribe drive. It advertizes that it is an 8x writer. I have 4X dvd blanks and it will only write at...

Hi, I recently bought a new Western Digital 160GB Sata drive. After twee weeks the hd went up in smoke... :-( I received a replacement drive (the same one as i had) and it was working...

Hi, I need the ability to boot to multiple kernels or OS's from a USB drive without having to install anything on a system's primary fixed HDD. In other words, as a technician, I need the ability to...

I wanna buy my wife a USB key drive ("thumb drive" or whatever) primarily to use with Pass2Go - a portable version of RoboForm. Suposedly Pass2Go requires a drive that works correctly...

hi, can anyone direct me to sites/benchmarks that show the performance of a "typical" serial ata drive vs. a raid configuration? what i'm really interested in is the performance boost for a given...

The hardrive on a computer has been damaged and I am unable to boot it up (even in safemode) so I can retrieve important files. It gets as far a the blue screen of death where it tells me that...

I have 4 Western Digital SATA 250mb hard drives with 16 mb cache, I also have 2 Maxtor 250 PATA with 16 mb cache, 2 D945PSN mother board with an 840 dual core CPU, 2 gigs of ram, I need to build 2...

Used SeaTools diagnostics on my Seagate 120 GB SATA drive. 3/4s through got this: BAD Sector LBA: 163367997 Used in the file: \PROGRA~1\DISCWI~1\IOW.DLL If this is a directory, any contained files...

Greetings! I am new to this S-ATA stuff. Running an ASUS P5LD2-VM. Two S-ATA sockets on MB - one labelled S-ATA 1-3 and the other labelled S-ATA 2-4. I installed a single S-ATA drive (my bootable...

Hi, in choosing an external hard drive i have narrowed it down to a choice between a small laptop type in an external case or a small portable solid state type of 60 GB. is there any advantage in...

Hi guys, I've got an external HDD connecting via USB that has stopped working all of a sudden. Pluging it in starts the drive up and running and loads the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system...

Under XP, I just ran Disk Defragmenter on my C: drive, a 120-gig Seagate, with no problem. But when I tried to defrag my primary slave drive, a 40-gig Western Digital, I got a message that the drive...

Hi everyone, apologies if question stupid or way off-topic, but i'd appreciate any help anyone can give. I have what seems to be a dead hard drive on my Dell Dimension (8200, if that's relevant). It...

Hi, I want to build a SATA RAID array in 2 stages. First I want to take my 2 SATA 120GB drives and stripe them (as I plan on editing lots of video). A couple of months later I want to turn this...

New release of hardware monitoring utility with thermocontrol features is available at www.hmonitor.com! Now, with x64/EM64T support and nVidia GPU monitoring. December 05, 2005 - Hmonitor Version...

Everest Home has been discontinued. http://www.lavalys.com/news.php?article=31&selcat=PR&lang=en You can still get it from http://members.iinet.net.au/~rod_speed/everesthome201.exe

kothdvideo <**navajo@neonfeather.com**> wrote Not with the XP boot drive it doesnt. Yes, boot the XP CD and do an install in place. Basically proceed as if you are going to do a clean install,...

One never knows until one tries to recover. You should always get to XP. Did you ever use WinPE in any form? That depends on what one expects/does after renaming. I'm afraid that renaming will...